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Introduction

Long gone are the days of 36 shot films and disposable flashes. The evolution of the age of the digital camera has allowed novice and expert photographers alike to review, edit and improve the quality of their pictures. Be it for the family album pic or the artistic landscape shot, the Ciao Shopping Guide to Digital Cameras gives you overview of some of the major features to look for when making your purchasing decision.


Price + Size

As you would expect, the average price of a digital camera can vary highly depending on the specifications you are looking for. For a camera that provides a basic offering, you can spend as little as £50, but expect the quality of your photos to suffer as a result. While improvements to the number of megapixels offered by cheaper cameras have been made, buyers need to look at many other factors if they want a camera that takes the perfect shot. The lack of a decent zoom, battery life, decent flash and sufficient image and editing features will all have a detrimental effect on the final photo quality. The better you want your camera to perform in these particular areas, the more you will have to spend. Good quality digital cameras will cost between £150 and £200, with the best products starting at just over £300.


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Ordinary family camera

Advantages: Affordable, easy to operate!
Disadvantages: Appearance is not novel enough!

Sony W210 is a position in ordinary home users of digital cameras, it is not used in the design and the bold avant-garde elements, but in a more structured shape with China and the United States of the front panel to fit this part of the user's aesthetic practices. In the configuration, W210 uses a 1/2.3 in. CCD, approximately 12.1 million effective megapixels and a Carl Zeiss 30 - 120mm (f/2.8-5.8) retractable 4x optical zoom lens, more than 12 ...
...of the W210. While this Sony W210 in appearance, configuration and functionality of the bright spots are not a lot, but it has a well in the quality test performance, a photo-resolution and color saturation is high. Believe that this bright and clear imaging style would certainly be welcomed by home users. Generally speaking, for home use, the price is still very good! ...

bestaini89 07.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sony CyberShot DSC-W210

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Great, compact, good quality camera suitable for a beginner

Advantages: Small, compact, easy to use, good value
Disadvantages: None

...A3 for work and the quality was not compromised. I was very impressed by this. I had always heard that Cybershots were good quality cameras and this one certainly doesn't disappoint. Sony is a well known brand and this backs up my previous thoughts about Sony. A great buy! ...

stella.edwards 02.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W180

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Slick, slim, and fast, all the qualites required in a compact .

Advantages: picture quality stunning, state of the art touchscreen, amazing 720p HD Video,
Disadvantages: Pricey, battery life questionable (around 200 snapshots)

...memory card, if your looking for excellence and dont mind lugging around a heavy bulky unit, buy a Canon EOS 50D at around £1500.00 if your looking for near excellence in a light, shirt top pocket, fast operating compact at 1/5th of the price then buy the Sony T900. ...

FUNTASY1 12.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T900

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Great little camera for new users to the digital world

Advantages: Size, weight, ease of use, zoom capabilities.
Disadvantages: For the price you would expect to get a case and memory card.

It was not difficult to choose the DSC-S930 as my everyday camera. I take it everywhere due to it's compactness, lightness and ease of use. The LCD (Liquid Crysal Display) virtually takes up the whole of the back panel, allowing pictures to be viewed easily and clearly. The controls are very simple to understand and use too. All in all, it really is a great little camera for the first time user. It is not the cheapest camera on the market but has ...
...superior. Considering the size of the mp's, it makes it good value for money. The menu has large text to read and again, is simple to understand. You are not bombarded with lots of images as with each option, you are given a 'laymens-terms' description of what each option will do and why you may need it. i.e.when setting to take a photo, if you select the little snowman it will say underneath it, 'Snow'. This is probably on many cameras now but ...

Chrissies1970 12.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sony Cybershot DSC-S930

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pricey but brilliant.

Advantages: brilliant camera
Disadvantages: pricey

This sleek, thin camera available in Black, Silver and Pink is dynamic in that it is easy to carry around as it is light weight, comes in a range of different colours to define your character and yet has some of the strongest key features witin cameras that are out on the shelves at the moment. One of it's brilliant Key features is that it has a 12.1 mega pixel camera and it's x4 zoom lense. However it has to be said that it's main talking point ...
...of the lense dual image and the stabilisation mechanism both optical SteadyShot and an ISO range that extends up to ISO3200 which makes it easier to take pictures when in a shaky scenery such as a bus, train etc. This camera just gets better thought, not only does it have face recognition on there to try and make that picture that extra bit clearer around peoples faces it also has a smile detector, meaning that if it identifies a smile it will work ...

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